A prerequisite for all higher level information extraction tasks is the identication of unknown names in text. Today, when large corpora can consist of billions of words, it is of...
We present a divide-and-conquer strategy based on finite state technology for shallow parsing of realworld German texts. In a first phase only the topological structure of a sente...
There are several approaches for pen-based systems to improve legibility of handwritten text, e.g. smoothing the strokes composing the characters and words. A very challenging sol...
In this paper, we present an approach which, given a knowledge base and an appropriate text corpus, automatically induces patterns which can be used to query the knowledge base. W...
Recently, there has been a growth in the amount of machine readable information pertaining to the biomedical field. With this growth comes a desire to be able to extract informati...